An electronic converter assembly comprising a first heat sink member having at
least a first mounting surface and a length dimension, a plurality of power switching
device modules wherein each module includes at least four separate power switching
devices, the modules mounted to the first sink mounting surface such that the switching
devices are aligned along the length of the sink member, each switching device
including inter-converter connection terminals linkable to at least one of a load
and a source and intra-converter connection terminals linkable, each intra-converter
connection terminal linkable to at least one of a positive and a negative DC bus,
first, second and third bus bars, each bus bar linked to the inter-converter connection
terminals of at least first and second pairs of the power switching devices where
the at least first and second pairs of power switching devices linked to specific
ones of the bus bars are from different switching device modules and a linkage
assembly including a plurality of conductors that link the intra-converter connection
terminals of the power switching devices to form a power conversion topology.
